Poll-based networking system

Abstract

Described is a poll-based networking system. The system provides an on-line network of friends that are determined through polling each of the users. This system polls a user with a variety of questions. After providing an answer to each question, the system compares, in real-time, the current user's responses with all other users' responses to identify those users that most similarly answered the questions to that of the current user. As the current user progressively answers additional questions, the system progressively updates the matching and presentation of similar users. As such, as the current user navigates the website by answering polling questions, the selected answers are compared against the selected answers of other users to generate a likelihood of match between the user and each of the other users. The user profiles of other users that have a likelihood of match within a predetermined threshold are then presented.

Description

PRIORITY CLAIM[0001]This is a Continuation application of U.S. application Ser. No. 12 / 951,332, filed on Nov. 22, 2010, entitled “Poll-Based Networking System,” which is a non-provisional application of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 309,038, filed on Mar. 1, 2010, entitled, “Poll-Based Networking System.”FIELD OF INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to a networking system and, more particularly, to a networking system that connects users based on similarities as determined through poll answering and provides real-time results to the users.BACKGROUND OF INVENTION[0003]With the advent of the internet, a plethora of social networking websites have been established. By way of example, MySpace® and Facebook® are internet-based networking sites that allow users to create and participate in social networks. Such social networking sites share several common characteristics in that they allow users to create profiles, find friends to create friend groups, and share information ...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

Enables efficient and real-time connection of users based on similarities through progressive polling, providing accurate and up-to-date matching results by utilizing a distributed architecture and in-memory arrays for rapid comparison and aggregation of user responses.

Problems solved by technology

While the sites may query the user to classify the user with a similar group of people, such sites do not provide a progressive poll query that, in real-time, matches the user with other users based upon all of the polls taken.

While such existing sites match a collective user profile against predefined categories, they do not progressively poll and match the user against all other users after each query item.

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